1. From JA's loose sheets of minutes of debates (D/JA/22A). In the MS these undated notes follow minutes of debates on Galloway's plea for a plan of union
(Debates, 28 Sept., above), but their physical location is a very doubtful { 155 } clue to their date. The question of including the “Canada Bill” (Quebec Act) among
the colonists' grievances was repeatedly debated, but the parallels in substance and
even in phrasing between the present rough notes and Duane's Notes tentatively assigned
by Burnett to 17 Oct. strongly suggest that both pertain to the same day's debate.
See JCC, 1:66; Burnett, ed., Letters of Members, 1:77–79. It seems likely that JA's notes are the heads of his own arguments exclusively, but Duane's summary of JA's speech is too meager and cryptic to make this conjecture certain.